Why aren’t more people recognizing the pandemic of isolation? It’s a global crisis that couldn’t hit closer to home.Myriad messages saying AI bots can fill the void provide just one more chorus of voices in the litany of lies saying humans are worthless if they don’t have money.
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Criticism of Pessimistic AI Discourse Calls for Hopeful Vision
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Your messages spread hopelessness. I genuinely wish you would use your amazing brain and energy inspiring something akin to a positive future. You make me sad.
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Defining Equitarism: Academic Framework Beyond Social Justice
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It needs to be non-disparaging, ie be accepted by the adherents, but also delineate it from other perspectives (such as liberalism). "Social Justice" is probably not academic enough. Equitarism? The practice of rewriting history is "elimination of harmful stereotypes"
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Terminology for Social Justice and Inclusive Equity in AI
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Because “woke” is often used as pejorative, it is not generally accepted by the adherents of the ideology. The same for Critical Race Theory (which also omits gender etc.) “Social Justice” may be better but is too informal. “Inclusive Equity” might work.
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Animal Consciousness and Flow State vs Human Rational Thought
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I think that’s because animals are always in flow state and can usually understand you by vibing with yours, whereas they cannot understand your rational reflexive self. The idea that reason is unique to humans is known since antiquity
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Political Bias in Scientific Hypothesis Validation: A Critical Analysis
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Even in physics and biology, dialectic materialism was teleological and normative, and explicitly permitted the rejection and endorsement of scientific hypotheses on political grounds.
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Postliberal Leftism and DEI: Naming Progressive Identity Politics
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People outside of progressive identity politics have lots of names for postliberal leftism, but they don’t want a label for themselves. They are simply the Good People Who Reject Harmful Ideas. DEI might be the closest.
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Data Scientist Contributes Chapter to Portuguese AI Ethics Book
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I was honored to contribute a chapter to this book by @hevertonsa Heverton Anunciacao => "The Data Scientist and his Demons" (in Portuguese, "O Cientista de Dados e Seus Demônios") at https://
amzn.to/49KFAT2 My chapter is based on an article, and 2 talks here: 1) -
Victory Against Surveillance Systems Remains Incomplete
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Sadly, I don't trust that this (or anything) will fully kill the will to surveil on behalf of power. HOWEVER, this is a wonderful blow to land!
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LLM Limitations Risk Deepening Legal Inequalities
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Current limitations of LLMs pose a risk of further deepening existing legal inequalities rather than alleviating them.